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Mobile Phone Upgrade

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This week it was time to upgrade my phone contract as a data allowance of 10MB a month was a joke with the current BT contract!

The first decision was easy iPhone or not, well not for me thanks, I’ve used loads of Apple stuff over the years but my IT work started around the same time as Apple and while their stuff looks cool I still avoid them. Going iPhone the choices would have been so easy a 4 or a 5 but rejecting Apple opens up a lot of options.

First option Windows or not, well definitely not thanks, Bill’s company have caused me enough wasted time over the years. Blackberry, no thanks I don’t send the type of texts that benefit from encryption and I don’t wear a Burberry hat. Well it looks like it’s going to be Android then, well Google sadly already know more about me than my mother does and pretty much everything is already synced with them, guess it will be a Samsung Galaxy then 500 minutes, 5,000 texts and 1GB of data a month should do nicely and the phone is free, I’m still on O2 but no longer with BT and I’m saving money, happy for now.

Hopefully the fibre optic broadband upgrade will also go smoothly next week followed by the change of telephone line provider a little later.

A mixed Thursday

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My telephone line appears to be working again although BT’s fault tracking web page is still showing the fault as waiting to be allocated to an engineer.

Had a browse around Comet and bought a Linksys PAP2-UV to connect to Vonage for a subscription of £9.99 a month all local and national calls to the UK and Ireland are free, with mobile calls between 5p/min at weekends, 15p/min evenings and 20p/min daytime and very low rates on international calls. It has voicemail, conference calls, caller display, call waiting, call diversion and uses any standard touch tone phone(s). It connects to the broadband router and doesn’t require any installation – a piece of cake! It means we have a second telephone line at a fraction of the cost of an additional BT line. Call quality is excellent as well.